Five stars is not enough. All the stars, forever. 

It’s official. I am a Tracey Deonn fangirl. I’ll read anything she writes, I don’t care if it’s a dang grocery list. I’m there. She’s earned a place on the always read list of authors. 

I am so sunk in. Bloodmarked starts off without missing a beat, you are right in the action. The Regents behave in exactly what you’d expect from a 1000+ year old organization, twisted and self-serving. Oh. And white. So. White. (I realize those two statements are redundant but I’m leaving it. The point stands.) Sel is battling his own demons (pun very much intended.) And Alice is Alice. (We all should have an Alice in our lives, she is the walking embodiment of best friend goals.) But Bree has to come to grips with the fact that every action and every decision carries more than just her on it. It carries the root, the Line, and it carries those at the Table with her. 

And the tension. It is palpable. Its corporeal. It’s flying off the page and smacking me in the face. So. Much. Tension. I’m living for it. Not only that, we get to see the history of Bree. The ancestors, the knowledge that had been locked away from her and those before her…until now. 

So many pieces click into place, so many details Deonn dropped that felt like throwaways. They were anything but. The strings draw tighter, bringing in the sweeping narrative to give it its ultimate purpose. And I didn’t see it coming. Hats off to you, Tracy Deonn. You are on a level most of us can’t even dream of being. Now, could you pretty please put my heart back together? It seems you’ve left it shattered there on the ground, under your foot.